I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!

  • sparky@lemmy.pt
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    2 years ago

    For instance, when I look at the list of comments on this thread sorted by both Hot and New, directly on Lemmy.ml versus on my home instance of Lemmy.pt, I don’t see the same set of comments. Not all of the ones from Lemmy.ml appear to have made it over to my instance. Is there some sort of eventual consistency mechanism in the system?

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      2 years ago

      Maybe it has to do with banned instances? Not sure but I believe if your instance bans other instances, the comments from those won’t show up

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        2 years ago

        I don’t think it’s that as I see posts from other users there. Just seems like some kind of sync issue or delay (?). Everyone else seems to be on pretty tame Lemmy instances like Beehaw, and at any rate I see your comment ;)